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Category: Pain and Tears

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1. "Everything hurts - and what doesn't, doesn't work."

Do you know who wrote this?

2. "What distinguishes the artist from the dilettante? Only the pain the artist feels. The dilettante looks only for pleasure in art."

Odilon Redon

Other categories: Art and Culture

3. "Only the broken-hearted know the truth about love."

Mason Cooley, "City Aphorisms"

Other categories: Love

4. "Who hears the fishes when they cry?"

Henry David Thoreau, "The Writings of Henry David Thoreau"

Other categories: Nature and Animals

5. "The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives."

Albert Einstein

Other categories: Life and Death

6. "The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings."

William Hazlitt, "Complete Works"

Other categories: Egoism

7. "No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader."

Robert Lee Frost, "Preface to Collected Poems"

Other categories: Art and Culture

8. "Those who are enjoying something, or suffering something together, are companions. Those who enjoy or suffer one another, are not."

Clarence Irving Lewis, "That Hideous Strength"

Other categories: Friendship and Hostility -:- Joy and Sadness

9. "Sometimes a man has to go through hell to turn to an angel."

Agnieszka Lisak

Other categories: Human

10. "It requires more courage to suffer than to die."

Napoleon Bonaparte

Other categories: Bravery and Fear -:- Life and Death

11. "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat."

Winston Churchill

12. "Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them."

Henry David Thoreau

Other categories: Dreams and Desires -:- Life and Death

13. "Bear the Cross cheerfully and it will bear you."

Thomas a Kempis, "The Imitation of Christ"

Other categories: God and Religion

14. "Anesthesia: wounds without pain. Neurasthenia: pain without wounds."

Karl Kraus, "Half-Truths and One-and-a-Half Truths"

15. "Misfortune is never invited. And it comes and sits at the table without permission and it eats, leaving nothing but bones."

Jacques Roumain

Other categories: Various

16. "Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it."

Jane Wagner

Other categories: Reality and Imagination

17. "The pleasure of those who injure you lies in your pain. Therefore they will suffer if you take away their pleasure by not feeling pain."

Tertullian, "De patientia"

18. "No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown."

William Penn, "No Cross, No Crown"

Other categories: Authority, Government

19. "Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt."

Jose Ortega y Gasset, "In Search of Goethe from Within"

Other categories: Work and Laziness

20. "International business may conduct its operations with scraps of paper, but the ink it uses is human blood."

Eric Ambler, "A Coffin for Dimitrios"

Other categories: Richness and Money

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21. "The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh."

Minna Antrim, "Naked Truth and Veiled Allusions"

Other categories: Life and Death

22. "Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent."

Francis Picabia, "Who Knows: Poems and Aphorisms"

Other categories: Happiness

23. "Maybe men are separated from each other only by the degree of their misery."

Francis Picabia

Other categories: Human

24. "To feel our ills is one thing, but to cure them is another."

Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), "Epistolae ex Ponto"

Other categories: Health and Alcohol

25. "The main motive for “nonattachment” is a desire to escape from the pain of living, and above all from love, which, sexual or non-sexual, is hard work."

George Orwell, "Shooting an Elephant"

Other categories: Love

26. "One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea."

Walter Bagehot, "Physics and Politics"

Other categories: Human

27. "None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry."

Edith Hamilton, "The Greek Way"

Other categories: Art and Culture

28. "A mother’s life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears."

Honoré De Balzac

Other categories: Family and Loneliness

29. "Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed."

Natalie Clifford Barney

Other categories: Time and Passing

30. "When the book comes out it may hurt you — but in order for me to do it, it had to hurt me first. I can only tell you about yourself as much as I can face about myself."

James Baldwin, "A Dialogue"

Other categories: Art and Culture

31. "That's the secret to life... replace one worry with another..."

Charles Monroe Schulz, "Charlie Brown"

Other categories: Life and Death

32. "One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love."

Sophocles

Other categories: Love

33. "All the [hours] wound you, the last one kills."

Latin proverb, (inscription on clocks)

Other categories: Inscriptions etc. -:- Time and Passing

34. "Revenge is a confession of pain."

Latin proverb

Other categories: Anger

35. "We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full."

Marcel Proust

Other categories: Health and Alcohol

36. "Without health, life is not life; it is only a state of languor and suffering."

Francois Rabelais

Other categories: Health and Alcohol -:- Life and Death

37. "The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea."

Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen)

Other categories: Health and Alcohol

38. "The man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears."

Michel de Montaigne

Other categories: Bravery and Fear

39. "Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head."

Carol Burnett

40. "Give me blood and I shall give you freedom."

Subhas Chandra Bose

Other categories: Freedom and Servitude

41. "Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional."

M. Kathleen Casey

42. "Patience is the plaster of all sores."

Irish proverb

Other categories: Sorrow and Nostalgia

43. "Turn your wounds into wisdom."

Oprah Winfrey

Other categories: Wisdom and Stupidity

44. "Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Other categories: Joy and Sadness

45. "If you remain angry at someone, then who is suffering?"

Tristan J. Loo

Other categories: Anger

46. "What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul."

Jewish proverb

47. "What doesn't hurt - is not life; what doesn't pass - is not happiness."

Ivo Andrić

Other categories: Time and Passing

48. "Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love."

Leo Buscaglia

Other categories: Love -:- Anger

49. "A good friend sees the first tear, catches the second and stops the third."

Do you know who wrote this?

Other categories: Friendship and Hostility

50. "Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune."

William James

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